SirEDCaLot

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don't mean for existing ones. I mean for installing new ones.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Gas stoves rock. Rather than banning gas stoves, just require that they be installed safely.

The answer here is simple- mandate a range hood with real outside exhaust (not the cheap ones that blow air back into the room). And require a make-up air vent with equivalent capacity.

Maybe require the stove to automatically engage the vent at low speed (near-silent) so when you start a burner the vent runs at like 10CFM or something automatically.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Much has been said about the idea of 'signal leaving UK or EU'. Little has been said about how exactly that would happen.

AFAIK, Signal has no business presence in the UK or EU. IE, no offices, no registered corporate entities. Thus, they (arguably) have no more requirement to comply with UK's or EU's regulations than, say, Iran's or China's or any other jurisdiction where they do not do business and have no presence.

Signal's leadership has a record of giving any regional restrictions the middle finger, so I doubt Signal would voluntarily block EU countries. So that means the EU would either pressure Google and Apple to delist Signal (easily worked around, at least on Android, and soon on Apple too as EU is trying to force sideloading) or they'd pressure ISPs to block connections to Signal (more or less impossible).

If EU tried to do that, it'd just create a giant game of whack-a-mole. And people doing real CSAM shit would just move to even more private distributed systems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Yes exactly. No online platform can catch 100% of prohibited activity. They are punishing the wrong people. What they should do is get a list of all the ones eBay missed, file charges against the seller and start knocking on buyer's doors. Or maybe send some agents in an undercover Prius to pull them over and issue a fine when they get coal rolled. That would send a pretty clear message that eBay is not a safe place to purchase these items.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Your moment has come!!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago (20 children)

I came here thinking this sounds like she might be getting woke-cancelled for suggesting Israel is pure as driven snow...

Khalifa even urged Hamas fighters to "flip their phones and film" executions horizontally in one of her posts.

Nevermind, she can go fuck herself with a cactus.

If you think military fighters executing civilians is an acceptable strategy, you probably deserve to be among those civilians and see how you like it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

This is the answer.

Matrix needs to make it easier to expire or delete messages from the server, but other than that it's doing a lot of the stuff Signal should've been doing years ago. Easy to use multiple devices, easy to get messages on multiple devices, keep chat history in sync, no reliance on phone numbers for identity or single identity servers, good working federation / ability to set up private hosted groups, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's a good theory, but why were they shooting at civilian cars then?

I think your theory may make more sense than most (explains the abductions) but it still mostly seems nonsensical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think a broad look at Israel's policies is long overdue in a few areas.
But this action virtually guarantees that won't happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I think indoor farming / vertical farming is going to be the ultimate answer. Much more efficient in every way, including resource use, water, pesticide, etc.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (22 children)

I only know some basics of the whole situation, but I really don't get this attack. Israel is a modern Westernized nation and enjoys STRONG support, financial and military, from many/most other Western developed nations. They have modern weapons of just about all types.
Israel is accused of some awful shit and stealing peoples homes. From what I can see they're probably guilty of this.

But I don't understand how killing a bunch of civilians at a rave is going to overall help the cause. It seems to me like a. it'd give your better-armed adversary an excuse to smack you down once and for all, and b. a good way to make the rest of the world feel like they shouldn't be stopped in doing so (and if anything, helped in their efforts).

So what is the goal? Is this just an expression of pent up anger? Because it seems a poor strategy to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Amen to that. Flying in that game was super fun, especially with the 'trade lanes'

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